universe

Benjamin Johnson May 25, 2018 38
A Multiverse — where our Universe is only one of many — might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new research. Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and…

Benjamin Johnson May 14, 2018 149
A multitude of discoveries are on the horizon after a much-awaited release that is based on 22 months of charting the sky as part of Gaia’s mission to produce the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy ever created. The new…

Benjamin Johnson Apr 27, 2018 11
New images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich landscape of stars and glowing clouds of gas in one of our closest neighboring galaxies, the Small Magellanic Cloud. The pictures have allowed astronomers to…

Benjamin Johnson Apr 25, 2018 6
A distinct lack of the chemical element phosphorus in other parts of the Universe could make it very difficult for extra-terrestrial life to exist there. This is according to experts at Cardiff University, who have found very little evidence of…

Benjamin Johnson Apr 17, 2018 2
Astronomers, using data from the Gemini and W. M. Keck Observatories in Hawai’i, have encountered a galaxy that appears to have almost no dark matter. Since the Universe is dominated by dark matter and it is the foundation upon which…

Benjamin Johnson Apr 13, 2018 28
An international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, have reported the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter? According to theory, the Big…